In the early 1880s, many families began to migrate south to the Tongue River watershed area and established homesteads in the northern edge of the Powder River Basin, which they considered their natural home.
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On September 12, Howard sent a message to Colonel Nelson A. Miles stationed at Fort Keogh (then called the Tongue River Encampment) requesting his assistance.
Tongue River Cave is a cave in the Bighorn National Forest just west of Dayton, Wyoming.
The battlefield is located in the Tongue River Valley, near Birney, Montana.